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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Advice-taking"”.
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Essays on Mechanisms Underlying Belief Updating with Applications in Wisdom of Crowds
… scaled amount of belief updating given numerical advice (i.e., the group mean), as a proxy for prior variance to better reflect the relative expertise of each agent in a crowd. The intuition, which I confirm both theoretically and empirically, is that those who are less swayed by the group mean …
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Auditors' Use of Formal Advice from Internal Firm Subject Matter Experts: The Impact of Advice Quality and Advice Awareness on Auditors' Judgments
… call upon subject matter experts to provide advice. While these experts are the knowledge experts in their area, the quality of the advice depends upon their ability to fully understand and incorporate client specific facts. PCAOB inspection reports suggest that audit teams are neglecting to …
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Three Essays on Economic Value Creation through Decisions and Cooperation
… relationships and examine how the source of advice may serve as a nudge for collaboration between advisors and investors. Using a controlled laboratory experiment, I test whether identical advice to “stay the course” is equally effective when delivered by a human expert or an AI-based …
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How Do Specialist Expertise, Auditor-Specialist Communication, And Time Pressure Affect Auditors’ Use Of Specialists’ Valuations?
… affecting auditors’ reliance in specialists’ advice. Additionally, auditor-specialist communication significantly affects auditors’ reliance on specialists, but only when specialists have relevant prior experience. Furthermore, auditors’ opportunity to communicate with specialists indirectly …
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Misjudging our Influence on Others: Blind Spots in Perceptions of Peer Use of Advice
<p>People give each other advice on a variety of topics throughout their lifetimes. In this dissertation, I ask: Do advisors accurately perceive the impact of their advice? Or, do they possess blind spots that prevent them from doing so? I focus on whether advisors recognize the information they …
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Die Übernutzung nicht valider Ratschläge: Warum schlechte Ratschläge über Gebühr berücksichtigt werden
Die Nutzung von Ratschlägen bei Urteilen und Entscheidungen sind ein integraler Bestandteil des alltäglichen Lebens. Der wohl stabilste Befund in der Literatur zum Umgang mit Ratschlägen ist, dass Personen dazu tendieren, ihre eigenen Urteilen zu stark zu gewichten und Ratschläge nicht in dem …